Author: Brila

Former Super Eagles player and assistant coach to late Stephen Keshi, Sylvanus Okpala has encouraged the NFF to go back to local coaches to manage the super eagles saying, Genort Rhor has tried and he should pave way for an indigenous coach to manage the team.

Nigeria’s U21 junior male team departed for Spain on Monday morning where they will participate in the World Junior Handball Championship.

The 2019 Aiteo/FA Cup final will hold in Kaduna, Kaduna State, www.brila.net understands.

It is a feisty confrontation of Eagles as Nigeria and Tunisia file out at the Al Salam Stadium in Cairo on Wednesday for the third-place match of the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations finals. Otherwise called the ‘losers’ final’, the third-place match traditionally awards bronze medals to the winning team. Both Nigeria and Tunisia must recover adequately and pick up morale after losing in the semi-finals on Sunday: Nigeria falling to a superb Riyad Mahrez free-kick at the death against Algeria and Tunisia crashing out courtesy of an own goal by Dyran Bronn against Senegal. The Confederation of African Football has…

The Nigeria sporting scene is gearing up to wear a new look with the emergence of a private Organization named, Youth Sports Movement, (YSM), a Unit of the Africa Center of Youth Sports and Development with the initiative to organize a secondary school Games in Nigeria using this year’s edition in Abuja as the pilot project.

Golden Eaglets assistant coach Nduka Ugbade has emphasized the need for his team to be tactically disciplined as they prepare for the FIFA U17 World Cup tournament. The Golden Eaglets will fancy a 6th world cup title when they begin their World Cup campaign in Brazil. They are placed in Group B alongside Hungary, Ecuador and Australia. Ugbade maintained that there will be no room for complacency as no country should be underrated. He concluded that adequate preparation, tactical discipline and team syncing will be key in ensuring that the youngsters compete favourably in Brazil. “The most important thing actually…

Former Nigeria international Friday Ekpo has urged coach Gernot Rohr to hand opportunities to fringe Super Eagles players ahead of tomorrow’s Third place playoff against their Tunisian counterpart as the two teams fight for the consolatory honour of picking up a medal at the AFCON’s penultimate game in Egypt. Ekpo speaking in a chat with www.brila.net said the next is to focus on players with plenty of years ahead of them and be bold enough to check them out against the Tunisian Carthage Eagles in the Third place match. He urged the coach to still ensure the team looks competitive…

African women wrestling champion in the 68kg Blessing Oborududu has expressed joy at finishing with a medal after claiming Bronze at the just concluded international wrestling ranking series in Turkey together with compatriot Commonwealth and Africa wrestling champion in the 57kg Odunayo Adekuruoye who claimed Gold.

Coach of Nigeria’s U16 basketball National team Fubara Onyanabo has stated that he is very proud of the outing of the Junior Tigers at the just concluded FIBA Africa U16 championship in Praia Cape Verde where the team finished third with a 54 – 53 win in the third-place game against Guinea.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick, alongside his 2ndVice President, Shehu Dikko and General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi were on Monday at the Le Meridien Cairo Airport hotel camp of the Super Eagles to ginger the players ahead of Wednesday’s third-place match against Tunisia.